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Welcome to H-Russia, a member of H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine. H-RUSSIA encourages scholarly discussion of Russian and Soviet history and makes available diverse bibliographical, research and teaching aids.

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I am doing some research on the journalist and photo historian Leonid Volkov-Lannit (1903-1985), who was affiliated with Novyi Lef in the late 1920s as a young man. I am trying to make some sense of his political repression.

Some of you will be aware that the Russian imperial foreign ministry archive has been closed since 2012 for reconstruction. According to the entry on the archive on ArcheoBiblioBase, they're scheduled to re-open in 2016. Searching recently for an update, I found the following:

The Center for International and European Studies (CIES) at Kadir Has University will host the 5th International Neighbourhood Symposium (INS) at Heybeliada, near Istanbul between Tuesday, 23 June and Sunday, 28 June 2015. This year’s Symposium will focus on “Leadership and Change in the Eastern Neighbourhood and the Mediterranean South”.